New Jersey A 3292: Prohibits release of personal identifying information of violent crime victims and witnesses under State's open public records law.

Bill Text

A3292 

ASSEMBLY, No. 3292 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman WILLIAM B. SAMPSON, IV

District 31 (Hudson)

SYNOPSIS

���� Permits certain cities to transfer a portion of its 
public employees from a locally-administered health benefits program to SHBP.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning participation in the State Health Benefits 
Program and amending P.L.1964, c.125.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the 
Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 6 of P.L.1964, 
c.125 (C.52:14-17.37) is amended to read as follows:

���� 6.��� a.�� Any employer 
eligible for participation in the program may elect such participation by the 
adoption of a resolution by its governing body, which would include the name 
and title of a certifying agent, and a certified copy of the resolution shall 
be filed with the commission.� Any employer making such election shall become a 
participating employer under the program, subject to and in accordance with the 
rules and regulations of the commission relating thereto.

���� b.��� Notwithstanding the 
provisions of any other law to the contrary, the availability of plans within 
the program may be limited for employees of a participating employer other than 
the State pursuant to a binding collective negotiations agreement between the 
employer and its employees or pursuant to the application by the employer, in 
its sole discretion, of the terms of any collective negotiations agreement 
binding on the employer to employees for whom there is no majority 
representative for collective negotiations purpose.� The commission shall 
implement the terms of such an agreement, and the application of such terms, 
with regard to plan availability for employees of the employer.� The commission 
may impose such restrictions on the terms as the commission may deem necessary 
to ensure the effective and efficient operation of the program.� This 
subsection shall apply to the State Health Benefits Program and the School 
Employees' Health Benefits Program.

���� c.���� Notwithstanding the 
provisions of any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a governing 
body of a municipality of the first class, as defined in N.J.S.40A:6-4, may 
elect, by resolution, to participate in the program by transferring certain 
employees from the municipality�s health benefits program, provided pursuant to 
N.J.S.40A:10-17, into the State Health Benefits Program, while retaining in the 
locally-administered health benefits program any other employees not 
transferred into the State program.

���� A governing body of a 
municipality thereof that elects to transfer certain employees into the State 
Health Benefits Program shall provide, in writing, notice to those employees of 
its intent to change providers for those employees not less than 45 days prior 
to the date that the change in providers would be effective.� The governing 
body shall provide those employees, or their majority representative, with the 
master plan documents of both the current and proposed benefits prior to 
implementation of any changes.

(cf: P.L.2010, c.2, s.7)

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill permits certain 
municipalities to transfer a portion of its public employees from its 
locally�administered health benefits program into the State Health Benefits 
Program (SHBP).

���� Currently, a municipality with 
its own health benefits program may transition all of its public employees into 
SHBP on an �all or nothing basis.�� However, this bill permits municipalities 
of the first class, a municipality with a population of more than 150,000, the 
option to transfer certain employees from the municipality�s health benefits 
program into SHBP, while retaining in their locally-administered health 
benefits program any other employees not transferred to the State program.

���� Under the bill, a governing 
body of a municipality thereof that elects to transfer certain employees into 
SHBP is required to provide, in writing, notice to those employees of its 
intent to change providers for those employees not less than 45 days prior to 
the date that the change in providers would be effective.� The governing body 
is also required to provide those employees, or their majority representative, 
with the master plan documents of both the current and proposed benefits prior 
to implementation of any changes.